PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd’s ambition to win a United Nations Security Council seat for Australia could turn on its attitude to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, an influential Arab diplomat has warned.

Hesham Youssef, chief adviser to the 22-nation League of Arab States, said Australia’s stance would be scrutinised closely by Arab countries ahead of the UN vote, due in 2012.

But he said any lingering anger in the Middle East over the Howard government’s support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq was unlikely to hurt Australia’s campaign.

”Those who actively supported the direction of going to war were not appreciated in our part of the world … but I think this point is behind us now,” Mr Youssef told The Age in Melbourne yesterday.

”It would be more dependent on the position taken by Australia in the Arab-Israeli conflict more than any other issue.”

The Arab League forms a crucial bloc of votes that Australia hopes will support its bid to win one of two temporary spots on the Security Council for 2013-14. Finland and Luxembourg are also vying for a seat.

UN resolutions on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are regularly among the most controversial.

Australia risked angering the Arab world last year by siding with Israel, the United States and 16 other nations to vote against a report into alleged war crimes during the 2009 Gaza conflict. A total of 114 countries backed the report, while 44 abstained.

But the Rudd government also upset some in Israel by earlier switching Australia’s stance to support UN resolutions broadly demanding Israel give Palestinians fair treatment.

Mr Youssef said it was still too early to say whether the Arab League countries would back Australia’s bid.

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Mr Youssef is meeting officials and business leaders in Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney this week as a guest of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He said the Arab League countries and Australia could greatly expand economic and cultural links.

9 thoughts on “My KRuddness! Arabs tell KRudd to turn on Israel”

I am going to make an election predition based on these two defining stories.

Rudd will loose in a big way because the electoral climate has swung 180 degrees.
Suddenly, voters are seeing KRudd as he really is. All words, no action. We are sick of seeing Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard, all the time, with her ‘strine’ talking. [Very low brow] People say ‘Where’s Rudd?” “Oh, he’s at the U.N. or somewhere else global, preparing for a world seat somewhere, while Australia burns. [Nero] Pandering to the Arabs, who are masterminding the Global Jihad is just plain crazy, all for the sake of a seat, somewhere.
Not doing anything about swarms of boat-people does it every time for the imcumbent government and Aussies DON’T like that.

‘…There are other birds that dispense with every convention of home making and parenthood, and resort to cunning to raise their families. These are the “brood parasites,” birds which never build their own nests and instead lays their eggs in the nest of another species, leaving those parents to care for its young.

The cuckoo is the best known brood parasite, an expert in the art of cruel deception. Its strategy involves stealth, surprise and speed. The mother removes one egg laid by the host mother, lays her own and flies off with the host egg in her bill. The whole process takes barely ten seconds.
Cuckoos parasitize the nests of a large variety of bird species and carefully mimic the colour and pattern of their own eggs to match that of their hosts. Each female cuckoo specializes on one particular host species. How the cuckoo manages to lay eggs to imitate each host’s eggs so accurately is one of nature’s main mysteries.

Many bird species learn to recognize a cuckoo egg dumped in their own nest and either throw out the strange egg or desert the nest to start afresh. So the cuckoo constantly tries to improve its mimicry of its hosts’ eggs, while the hosts try to find ways of detecting the parasitic egg….’

“Muslims are like cuckoos, they take over another bird’s nest then mess it up.”

Much what I said to Solkhar – islam is a cuckoo religion, masquerading as an “abrahamic faith” and purporting to be a successor to Judaism and Christianity, when it mocks and rejects the fundamentals of both, and seeks to destroy Jews and Christians, or force them to submit.

Hitler “protected “the Finns from the russians in ww2. Nokia is working with the Islamic republic of Iran to use their technology to spy on the Green revolutionaries.

Many of those islamic nations are also real slave states, Mauretania, Sudan etc. the Brit gov is reacting exactly the same way as yours. this is because of the Euro-med pact(with the devil/islam) This is a pact they have told no one about, see our “neighbourhood” at http:/ ansamed.info
totally horrifying.